1. Analyze the following question in the first paragraph: Who came out of the opened door - the lady, or the tiger? Why? What textual evidence can be used to support your analysis?

The man stands alone wandering what to do. He does not know whether he should choose the left door or the right door. He looks at the princess, seeking for a clue to salvation. The princess points to the right door. The lover reaches out his hand to the right door hoping that something will occur. Then, the story ends leaving questions to the reader to think about. Was it the tiger that had came out the right door and devoured the lover, or was it the lovely lady who came out and hugged the lover? I personally think that the princess had led the lover to the lady even though she was a barbaric and jealous person. This is because I thought that if a person is barbaric, why would that person love someone, when that person is barbaric? Even though the story reminds us that the princess was a cruel person, (Think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the question depended upon yourself, but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have him?) I think the love that was within the princess would have prevented the princess from leading her love to the door of the tiger. Also, the story reminds us that she had made her decision very quickly, (Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she would be asked, she had decided what she would answer, and, without the slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right.) and when people make their decisions quickly, they tend to do what is very deep inside their mind and heart. The princess I believe had the man in her heart and would not have wanted to see her love tear into pieces by the tiger.

2. In the second paragraph, discuss any type of literary elements you discovered in the story. Forget the literary elements? Look at the brief list to refresh your memory: plot structure, characterization (indirect or direct), figurative language, conflict, symbols, etc! How could you apply these elements to Frank Stockton's story?

- In this story, I was able to see quite a lot of literary elements. First, the characterization was very obvious. The description of the barbaric king was definite. The author clearly showed how the king was a barbaric person by making people choose doors of tigers and a lady. Another characterization that I thought had a deep meaning was the part where the author mentioned the princess was a "semi-barbaric" which the author would have wanted to mention the princess as a more caring person than her father.